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Gerda Lundequist
Gerda Carola Cecilia Lundequist (; 14 February 1871 – 23 October 1959) was a Swedish stage actress, an Ibsen and Strindberg-thespian that in her time was known throughout Scandinavia as "The Swedish Sarah Bernhardt". Career Lundequist was considered one of Scandinavia's leading tragediennes and dramatic stage actresses, and she originated many leading female parts in plays by Ibsen and Strindberg. She had a 60-year-long career as a professional actress (with debut 1889) before she made her last performance in 1949 as Julia Hylténius in the successful staging of the comedy ''The Barons Will'' by Hjalmar Bergman. She studied at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy 1886-1889 and in 1891 appeared as Queen Gertrude in ''Hamlet'', a performance that established Lundequist's reputation. In 1890, she originated the role of Anne-Marie in Ibsen's ''A Doll's House'' and in 1897 the role of Ella Rentheim in Ibsen's ''John Gabriel Borkman''. Notable performances by Lundequist include t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerda Lundequist
Gerda Carola Cecilia Lundequist (; 14 February 1871 – 23 October 1959) was a Swedish stage actress, an Ibsen and Strindberg-thespian that in her time was known throughout Scandinavia as "The Swedish Sarah Bernhardt". Career Lundequist was considered one of Scandinavia's leading tragediennes and dramatic stage actresses, and she originated many leading female parts in plays by Ibsen and Strindberg. She had a 60-year-long career as a professional actress (with debut 1889) before she made her last performance in 1949 as Julia Hylténius in the successful staging of the comedy ''The Barons Will'' by Hjalmar Bergman. She studied at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy 1886-1889 and in 1891 appeared as Queen Gertrude in ''Hamlet'', a performance that established Lundequist's reputation. In 1890, she originated the role of Anne-Marie in Ibsen's ''A Doll's House'' and in 1897 the role of Ella Rentheim in Ibsen's ''John Gabriel Borkman''. Notable performances by Lundequist include t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrud (play)
''Gertrud'' is a Swedish 1906 play (drama), in three parts, by author and playwright Hjalmar Söderberg. Story description The play is a modern relationship drama. The main characters are the middle-aged Gertrud and three men she has a relationship with: her husband Gustav Kanning, a politician; her former lover Gabriel Lidman, an older poet; and her newfound love Erland Jansson, a young composer. All three desire her and have desired her in a different way. The first act is set in Gustaf Kanning's study at his home, where Gertrud, in the first scene, sits in the dark awaiting her husband's return from work. She is going to tell she is leaving him for her newfound love, and her former love interest suddenly returns from a long trip overseas. Gertrud is faced with questions about the sacrifice she is making for Jansson, and the reactions of Kanning and Lidman. The play tackles themes of love, passion, the feeling of being trapped and confined in a marriage, the need of love, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (, ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his '' The Red Room'' (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gösta Berlings Saga (film)
''The Saga of Gösta Berling'' ( sv, Gösta Berlings saga) is a 1924 Swedish romantic drama film directed by Mauritz Stiller and released by AB Svensk FAB Svensk Filmindustri, starring Lars Hanson, Gerda Lundequist and Greta Garbo in her domestic film breakthrough. It is based on Swedish Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerlöf's 1891 debut novel ''Gösta Berlings saga''. The film is also known as ''Gösta Berling's Saga'', ''The Story of Gösta Berling'' and ''The Atonement of Gösta Berling''. Plot The story follows several major characters, including Gosta Berling himself and others, especially women, whose lives touch him and that he touches. The film includes several flashbacks and crosscuts to other scenes giving additional information about those characters.. An opening intertitle extols the beauty of Varmland and the (fictional) estate of "Ekeby." A century earlier, the estate was home to a company of twelve "Cavaliers," former soldiers who spend their time idly an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
